Saturday, June 21, 2008

Setting Sail for the Sale

Rather than sitting in dispatch this Saturday morning, I'll be sitting at my mother's house in Canterbury just waiting for hordes of eager buyers to arrive with their pockets overflowing with money with which to buy some of the marvelous merchandise we have set out for their perusal. After all, hasn't it been said that "one's man trash is another man's treasure"?

In order to draw the crowds in, I placed the following ad in the Norwich Bulletin:

CANTERBURY: Sat. 8-2. Old Plainfield Road. No early birds unless you bring coffee!

Just as sure as God made little green apples, I have no doubt that people will arrive before the designated start time of the sale but I would also be willing to bet that none of them arrive bearing coffee! If any do, I shall be sure to take their picture and let you know because that, my friends, is the stuff that blog posts are made of!

Everyone have a fantastic Saturday - I'll be back tomorrow after I'm done counting the loot from my haul!

Well. Personally, I don't think it was very nice of you to just sell your stuff to strangers without giving your friends first shot at the loot. It wouldn't have hurt for you to put up a few pictures and take bids.

I feel your pain Linda, we are having a garage sale this weekend too. The joy of spending two weeks on prep time to get up early for two days. We posted our sale to start at 8am and had 6 customers before the official start time. Good luck.